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Review summary: Bart needed shop drawings on a tight schedule. The team discussed the project the same day, delivered drawings within a week, and completed minor revisions the following day. He praised their understanding of the scope, quick responses and progress updates.
Bart, BTW Enterprises, INC.
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Division 26 takeoffs and pricing
BidAccurate's electrical estimating services are for electrical contractors, GCs, suppliers, and in-house estimating teams bidding work across the US. We read the bid documents, quantify the Division 26 scope, and hand it back organized for pricing and purchasing.
A typical takeoff pulls from the one-line, the power and lighting plans, panel and fixture schedules, details, specs, and addenda. Fire alarm, data, security, and other low-voltage systems stay out unless you ask for them. If they're in, they get their own section.
We scope each job from the drawings, one-lines, schedules, specs, addenda, and bid form you send. A sub pricing labor needs different breakouts than a supplier quoting gear, so we set inclusions and units around how you'll use the numbers.
We start at the one-line. Each piece of gear on it is matched to its schedule, its plan location, and the spec section before anything downstream gets counted.
Conduit is taken off by type and trade size. Wire goes by gauge and conductor count. When the plans only show home-run arrows, we write down the routing we assumed.
Fixture counts come off the reflected ceiling plans and get checked against the fixture schedule by type letter. If they don't match, it goes on the RFI list.
This is the work that falls between sheets: the connection to another trade's equipment, the trench out to a pole base, the night shutdown.
Labor gets its own lines. So do lifts, freight, and markup, which means you can see them and change them.
Units follow the way electricians buy and install the work.
Send the current plans, specs, addenda, bid date, and any gear or fixture quotes you already have. We'll look through the set and confirm what the takeoff and estimate will include.
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We compare panel schedules with the one-line and the power plans. If a panel appears on one and not the other, you hear about it before bid day.
We do the counting and the measuring. Your estimator can spend the week chasing gear quotes and working the number.
Fixtures and gear are grouped by type, so two distributors end up quoting the same lighting package.
Boxes, fittings, supports, grounding, and equipment connections are easy to short on a fast takeoff. We carry each one as its own line.
Every measured run is colored by system on the PDF. When a number looks high, you can find the conduit it came from.
Send your labor units, supplier pricing, and cost codes and we'll build on them. No template? We use a plain Excel layout.
A missing panel, an unmeasured feeder, or a labor unit nobody can explain will throw off an electrical number. We keep the gear, the routing, and the labor where you can see them.
Power plans, lighting plans, panel and fixture schedules, specs, and addenda are all read against it, along with the mechanical schedule for equipment connections.
Service, feeders, branch, lighting, and site can each get a tab. Or group by floor, building, or phase.
You see labor units and crew rates line by line, with any adjustments for ceiling height, phasing, or overtime.
Exclusions, allowances, alternates, and the quotes we carried are listed with drawing references.
Workbooks can follow your assemblies and cost codes or drop into your purchasing sheet.
Send the addendum and we'll compare it to the prior set, mark the circuits and gear that changed, and update the agreed takeoff.
Six steps, from the first look at your bid set to a priced package you can check.
Electrical drawings, one-lines, schedules, specs, addenda, and the bid form. Add the project location, bid date, and any architectural or mechanical sheets showing equipment you'll connect.
We agree on what's in: fire alarm, low voltage, site lighting, alternates, and whether you want quantities only or a priced number.
Gear and devices are counted. Conduit and wire are measured by type and size, then fittings, boxes, supports, and terminations are added.
If you asked for pricing, we apply your quotes or confirmed material prices, labor units or crew assumptions, and the indirects you approved.
Before delivery, the takeoff goes back against the one-line, panel schedules, and specs. Conflicts and gaps are logged.
You get the Excel or PDF estimate, material and labor summaries, scope notes, and color-coded plan markups.
Tell us if you need quantities only, labor and material pricing, or a full estimate with your vendor quotes carried in.
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Electrical estimate deliverables
Use the package to get gear and fixture quotes, compare supplier coverage, check our labor assumptions, or load quantities into your estimating software. It's an estimate. It doesn't replace electrical design, engineering calculations, or permit documents.
Gear, conduit, wire, boxes, devices, fixtures, controls, and grounding, each counted or measured and tied to a drawing sheet.
Material and labor extended from the pricing you approved. Equipment, vendor quotes, and indirects sit on separate lines.
PDF plans with each system in its own color, so your team can trace a quantity back to the sheet.
One list of inclusions, exclusions, alternates, allowances, and the open questions we ran into.
Electrical estimating pairs well with a quantities-only takeoff, a full project estimate, or BIM coordination.
Need quantities only? We send the electrical counts and lengths with marked drawings and leave the pricing to you.
Fold the electrical number into a full project estimate with the other trades, general conditions, and markup.
When the project is modeled, we can coordinate electrical with the other trades and pull quantities from the model.
Partner with experienced construction professionals to deliver your project on time along with in budget.
